Hotmail Quick Add

2009/3/21

One of the new features of Windows Live wave 3 that I haven’t seen any coverage of yet is the “Quick Add” feature of Hotmail so I’ll take you on a tour of it in this blog entry. When you compose a new email in Hotmail the “Quick Add” bar will appear on the right-hand-side:

The enables you to conduct searches (using Live Search) and embed the results into your email so let me show you an example of that!

Imagine I’m writing an email to my friends to try and arrange a meal and I want to suggest a restaurant that we can go to. Let’s hit the “Restaurants” button in the Quick Add box and search for Italian restaurants (because I do love Pizza):

The results get displayed in the Quick Add bar. We get plenty of results back from that and moreover (here’s what I really like) they’re all really close to where I’m sat right now composing this email. I’m on London’s Southbank and all of those restaurants are within reach:

I think I want to go for Carluccios so I hit the “More Info” link and I get a new page from Live Search showing me more details, reviews and a map to the restaurant:

OK, I’m happy with Carluccios so back in the Quick Add bar I hit “Insert” and all the info is entered into my email along wit a link to all the details:

And that’s it, job done – that’s very cool indeed. I think I’ll be using this feature a lot.

-Jamie

Windows Live Tags: clubhouse, how-to, hotmail, Challenge-QuickAdd

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	Rajan发表: I too would like that 'Quick Add' bar off my page too. Anyone know what that 'Mark as Read' option is once you opened an email? Why can't they have some basic staff like - Add Star - Save font & color settings Often I have to click several times to open an email. It says something like 'javascript;;' on the status bar. I really dislike the way hotmail is detiorating. At the same time I don't like gmail's grouping format of emails. and Yahoo mail has so much spam. I am very certain that the hotmail developers themselves don't use hotmail as thier primary email account. Over the last couple of years Hotmail is going to the dogs. 8 月 27 日
	Karen发表: I want Quick Add off my email page, it is useless to me and takes up too much space! 8 月 14 日
	Marie发表: I do not want Quick Add on my email page. It makes the writing pane too small to see my reply to an email on one screen. I have to scroll down. I think this feature should be optional! 8 月 7 日
	Shaunee'发表: it doesn't show on my own. what should i do? 7 月 20 日
	David发表: Try this; it worked for me: http://www.purpleindigo.co.cc/2009/02/20/disable-quick-add-in-windows-live-hotmail-for-internet-explorer/ 7 月 1 日
	ArifiBesart发表: the quick bar it doesnt shown,please help me 6 月 14 日
	RANDY发表: I was also looking for a way to get rid of quick ad. Can't believe it has to be there. 6 月 12 日
	Carol发表: We don't need a larger monitor. Just remove the useless "features" like the quick add pane and we will have the equivalent of a larger monitor. An improvement would be an option to close or delete this quick add box. 6 月 11 日
	Sapphire发表: Seems to me like they took it out and replaced it with an equally large ad. I've never had problems with my reading space, so I really don't know what everyone is complaining about. Get a larger monitor if you're complaining about losing that bit of space. Also, please make the pictures straight in future blogs... It really doesn't look good and is just overly-distracting for trying to read through a review (essentially) and having to adjust your angle every paragraph and picture. 5 月 31 日
	htmlcakecastle发表: i cant find my quick add pane on my hotmail can someone show me how please, i need it , so important..thnx...- cakecastle1@hotmail.com 5 月 19 日
	Terence发表: Yes this thing takes up to much space and I don't use it, been trying to get rid of it, some one tell me how. 5 月 14 日
	Marilyn发表: Ditto from me!! Why do I HAVE to have this annoying feature? Shouldn't I have the option of removing it from my e-mail if I want? I want more space to view my letters, so PLEASE add a quick and EASY way to remove this...a "push one button" option would be great! 5 月 12 日
	没有名字发表: I agree. Please add an option to delete feature to the quick add . I hate this feature. 5 月 5 日
	没有名字发表: Hello, I also wish to remove this annoying feature from my computer, but see no way of doing so. Please add a removal feature. And for future new add ons, dont assume everyone likes ' new'. 'If its not broke, why fix it', as the saying goes. 5 月 5 日
	A发表: Hi guys, how do I remove the Quick Add featureso I can have a wider area of my email and/or pictures for viewing? Thanks friends2370@hotmail.com 5 月 1 日
	NatsukiSeika发表: Seems like Google added the feature to Gmail too recently :D http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-in-labs-google-search-right-in.html 5 月 1 日
	DanzePhilip发表: Any way to remove the "Quick Add" feature? 4 月 29 日
	ThomsonJamie发表: Marilyn, Who is "you guys"? Do you mean me? Please don't assume that I work for Microsoft. 4 月 9 日
	Levine HarbenMarilyn发表: I cannot believe the gall of you guys. I paid for a year of upgraded hotmail to get rid of this kind of crap on my mother's account, and here you go and add a completely useless feature that takes up a third of her screen when she is composing messages. Microsoft will die a slow and painful death unless you guys hire some product designers who don't have their heads up their asses. I will be switching her to gmail as soon as possible. 4 月 9 日
	ThomsonJamie发表: James, No, its not possible. I've been after the same for a long time now. -Jamie 4 月 7 日

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